Beer News and Where to Get It

At the risk of speeding the obsolescence of my blog, I thought I'd mention a site you should be visiting daily: BeerPulse. It was founded by Adam Nason as Beer News in 2008 and spent its first years as a feed for press releases. In the past few months or so, Adam has really stepped up the content. It still has press releases (useful, actually), but Adam scours Facebook, Twitter, and the news for anything beer related. He regularly has the latest business news, interesting pieces about collaborations or projects, and even deep-background pieces like this (catnip for me):

German winter barley and rapeseed yields should be about 10 percent
higher than last year, based on harvest results, farm lobby Deutscher
Bauernverband said.

The U.S. now boasts 2,126 breweries—an increase of 350 additional
breweries since June 2011. The BA also tracks breweries in planning as
an indicator of potential new entrants into the craft category, and
lists 1,252 breweries in planning today compared to 725 a year ago.
Additionally, the count of craft brewers was at 2,075 as of June 30,
2012 showing that 97 percent of U.S. brewers are craft brewers.

They include this graph, and the near-vertical line on the right-hand side looks a whole lot like the beginnings of a bubble. (For an unsettling comparison, have a look here.)